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I. WHAT a week. It felt so long! But there were some highlights, like having dinner/ girl time with T on Monday (yeah Olive Garden!), getting in some Ballet beautiful workouts, watching good movies, and reading good books.

II. What good books, you may ask? I shall tell you! The Constant Princess, The Queen’s Fool, Traveling With Pomegranates, Henry VIII (FINALLY finished it!), and The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted, which is a collection of short stories by the fabulous Elizabeth Berg. I also finished my re-read of Mansfield Park and Emma, and now I’m on Persuasion.

III. It’s been hot here. No joke. Really, really hot. It might rain now—we’re getting a lot of thunder—but who knows. I would like it to be no higher than 85 for like a week, please.

IV.Tonight I’m having dinner w/ my parents at Old Bag of Nails (one of my favs!) and mom and I have to access the port. Oh. Joy!

V. Lots of church stuff this weekend. Tomorrow I have an interview with the Formation Council of my Lay Dominican chapter, to see if I am ready to take the next set of promises in December (I’ll write more about this later). And Sunday is our annual day of recollection, a retreat. I am really looking forward to this. I missed it last year because I was on vacay, so this will be my first one. It’s at St. Therese Retreat Center, and I always have lots of good spiritual enlightenment there. I am hoping it will not be too hot so that I can do the outdoor stations and walk around the grounds a little. I’ve never been there in summer.

VI. (And yup, now it’s raining.)

VII. Very excited that The Dark Knight Rises has begun shooting in the ‘Burgh. In celebration I have been watching Batman Begins. 🙂

Seventh Commandment

all writing (c) 2004-2014, Emily M. DeArdo

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